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Betrayal Dream. Mulder wakes from the beach dream to find himself in the passenger seat next to CSM, who's driving. Mulder's still rocking his hospital gown and he's got handcuffs on. Mulder's in severe need of a shower. CSM tells Mulder that he had his doctors work on him because "at some point I realized that if the Syndicate didn't kill you the FBI would. If the FBI didn't kill you your own misguided heroism would. There's really no way out for you. There's no way for you to cheat death except by disappearing." Isn't the Syndicate destroyed? That was in Season 6, right? I thought so. Mulder says that people can't just disappear. CSM tells him that whole cultures can disappear. The Anasazi, perhaps? CSM tells Mulder that he'll become just like him, "a man without a name." Mulder doesn't quip that CSM indeed does have a name, CGB Spender, but instead keeps silent and lets him babble. "Like me, now, you'll... you'll become a man without a name. But even while you miss your former identity, you'll... you'll learn to love life's simpler pleasures." Mulder cracks that that'll be kind of difficult wearing handcuffs. CSM tells him that when no longer wants to run, they'll come off. Mulder's trapped! By CSM's lies! CSM asks Mulder how he feels. "I feel better than I did. I've got to tell Scully. I've got to tell her." Yes, Mulder! You can't forget about Scully. That's important! "If you do have contact with her you'll put her in danger. You're entering a kind of, uh, witness protection program, for want of a better term." CSM offers Mulder a cigarette and Mulder tells him that he doesn't smoke. "Maybe now you do." Why is Mulder believing anything CSM is telling him?

Scully's Apartment of Dead Sisters and Visitors From Beyond. I love Scully's apartment. It's so nice. Scully's hair is looking fab, ya'll. She looks exhausted and drops her keys on her kitchen table. She opens the fridge but is startled when she hears a sound in the apartment. She pulls out her gun and stalks back towards the living room. There's a shadowed figure standing in front of her door. "Don't move. Who's there?" Out of the shadows walks Albert Hosteen and he's looking cancer-free. Okay, sidebar: Does anybody else get pissed off at the DVD subtitles? I swear the subtitles for Biogenesis spelled his name Holsteen and now it's Hosteen. Also, the subtitles for Sixth Extinction spelled Sumeria as "Sumaria." There was something else, too, but now I forget. I'm sorry, but spelling and grammar is a peeve of mine. Moving on... "I don't mean to frighten you. Albert Hosteen." Scully drops her gun and asks him how he got there. Hosteen avoids this question and just apologizes for surprising her. "Surprise? That you're standing here. The last time I saw you was in New Mexico. They'd taken you from the hospital. Your... your doctors feared the worst." Hosteen doesn't comment on this either and tells Scully that he wanted to see her partner. Scully tells Hosteen that Mulder is missing. Hosteen tells her that she must save him. Scully tells him that Mulder's very sick. "You must find him before something happens not only for his sake -- for the sake of us all." Scully looks confused and so do I. "Us all?" The Indians? Mankind in general? The aliens? The spirit world? Hmm... I don't know.

Betrayal Dream. CSM and Mulder have now arrived at the Suburbia of Lies. CSM has pulled up in front of a house and basically tells Mulder that this is his home now. "This is your new life." He gives Mulder a key and then Mulder says he doesn't understand. CSM gets out of the car and says "You can drive away right now. Drive back to Scully and your X-Files and imminent death and I wouldn't be surprised if you did but I think you should take a look around. I mean, why leave something behind until you... until you know what it is you're leaving?" Cram it, CSM. This is what I meant when I said that CSM was right about the choice of "life or death." Mulder does indeed have that choice. Except, returning to Scully is the road to life. Abandoning her will only lead to his death. Let's hope he realizes this before it's too late. CSM walks away, leaving Mulder in the car.

LBO. Scully and that random agent from earlier are going over the security footage from the hospital. I think Random Agent is pretty cute. Cute Random Agent tells Scully that "Mulder was taken out of the hospital at just before 2:00 a.m. His mother's signature's on the hospital documents. It's her handwriting, she checked him out a.m.a; against medical advice." They then watch security footage which shows cameras in Mulder's room and outside in the hallway being blacked out. "Check this out. Where's Waldo? She's talking to someone." Cute Random Agent shows Scully blacked out video footage that conveniently has left a spot clear that lets us see Teena Mulder talking to someone smoking a cigarette. Scully knows who it is and so do we. Goodbye Cute Random Agent. I'm sure you've now been added to the long line of random agents within a twenty mile radius of Agent Scully who've fallen for her. So, take care of yourself. All records indicate that she is extremely hard to get over.